{"id":3958,"date":"2019-09-23T14:34:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T21:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2019-09-23T14:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T21:34:25","slug":"and-its-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/and-its-done\/","title":{"rendered":"And it’s done!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"new<\/a>After weeks of fiddling and worrying about how to do this or that, I finally have a brand-new version of my admittedly and woefully out-of-date web site! I couldn’t have done it without a *ton* of help from a generous friend who walked me through every glitch I encountered. On top of design glitches, my hosting company hit understandable delays when it was hit last week by a hurricane; the company is based in Houston.<\/p>\n

The site will function as a sort of scrapbook of all of my quilts and of the dogs I’ve had in my adult life, just as before. The “news” portion of my site is still this blog, of course. The main reason I even decided to update the “other part” of my site is that the software I’d been using isn’t 64-bit, and the MacOS that is coming out almost immediately requires that; I’d have been unable to do anything with that previous site. Now it’s modernized and I’m relieved! \ud83d\ude42 You can, if you like, visit it at <https:\/\/sandymike.net>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After weeks of fiddling and worrying about how to do this or that, I finally have a brand-new version of my admittedly and woefully out-of-date web site! I couldn’t have done it without a *ton* of help from a generous friend who walked me through every glitch I encountered. On top of design glitches, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[316],"tags":[195],"class_list":{"0":"post-3958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tech","7":"tag-misc","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-11Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2787,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/18\/slow-progress-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":3958,"position":0},"title":"Slow progress","author":"Sandy","date":"August 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of months ago I posted some embroidered Christmas tree blocks I was making. 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